CSX 3-rail modelers forum

I only model the old Seaboard Air Line, but I know there's a few folks on here that model CSX.  I only model SAL because it's cost prohibitive to try and model them all

Anyway, here's a couple of photos for you that I took a few years ago:

I have more around here, but these are the only 2 I have up on the website I use.

I may one day get into some ACL, time will tell.

Not modern day CSX but being an B&O local, I try to stick to B&O primarily with C&O, WM, PRR, Chessie as well. I regularly commute via the old B&O and PRR mainline. 

 Well....I try to!

I'm putting in a high rail loop later this year to run my 3rd rail C&O Allegheny and any future ones.

I'm mainly a 2 railer and I buy any color diesel I can get my hands on!

So, I may get kicked out of this club......

I definately play with them more than model them. Lol. Nevertheless, on our modern layout ... I'm the CSX guy. Lionel Legacy motive power .....

AC6000 (AC60CW) #'s 608, 610 & 618

3GS21B GenSet #1303

SD40-2 #'s 8028 & 8033

Not my main road....but it runs by my daughters house and my grand daughter KNOWS CSX!!   So I built a few locos so she could run the trains she sees on a daily basis. WbB units with custom paint and my own decals. Corrected the fuel tanks too.

Should not the PRR and Conrail be a part of the family? Did not the courts say they had to split down the middle conrail, which was mostly the PRR? Just asking.

John

I thought Central of Georgia was part of the Southern Railroad (now part of Norfolk-Southern)?????..........................Rogerw.

And the C&EI merged into the Missouri Pacific which is now part of the Union Pacific!

Rusty

Central of Georgia Railway

Construction began from Savannah as Central Railroad & Banking Company of Georgia in December 1835. Controlled by Illinois Central 1909-48, and by Frisco 1956-61. Became a subsidiary of Southern Railway on June 17, 1963, and merged into Southern Railway system on June 1, 1971. Information obtained from trains.com 6/14/2006..............Rogerw.

Note: CSX and Norfolk Southern split the assets of Conrail.

CSX acquired 42 percent of Conrail's assets, and NS received the remaining 58 percent.

Norfolk Southern received the portion of Conrail which was previously the Pennsys system (later Penn Central).

CSX Transportation was formed on July 1, 1986, as a combining and renaming of the Chessie System and Seaboard System Railroad into one entity. The originator of the Seaboard System was the former Seaboard Air Line Railroad, which previously merged Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in 1967, and later Louisville and Nashville Railroad, as well as several smaller subsidiaries such as the Clinchfield Railroad, Atlanta and West Point Railroad, and the Georgia Railroad (Georgia Railroad and Banking Company). On August 31, 1987, the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, which had absorbed the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad on April 30 of that year, merged into CSX. The merger had been started in 1986 with the merger of Chessie System and Seaboard Coast Line Industries to form the CSX Corporation.^[2]

On June 23, 1997, CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern filed a joint application with the Surface Transportation Board for authority to purchase, divide and operate the assets of the 11,000-mile Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail), which had been created in 1976 by bringing together several ailing Northeastern railway systems into a government-owned corporation. On June 6, 1998, the STB approved the CSX–NS application and set August 22, 1998, as the effective date of its decision. CSX acquired 42 percent of Conrail's assets, and NS received the remaining 58 percent. As a result of the transaction, CSX's rail operations grew to include some 3,800 miles of the Conrail system (predominantly lines that had belonged to the former New York Central Railroad). CSX began operating its trains on its portion of the Conrail network on June 1, 1999. CSX now serves much of the eastern U.S., with a few routes into nearby Canadian cities.^[2]

With the building of the Savannah and Atlanta Railroad, which connected with the Georgia Railroad at Warrenton, Georgia, the Georgia Railroad now competed with the Central of Georgia Railroad for traffic to and from Savannah.

ProHobby, The Georgia Railroad and the Central of Georgia Railroad are TWO different railroads!!!!.................rogerw. 

CSX O scale collection:

Here are photos of 2 recent CSX engines acquired:

These are MTH 20-2621-1 and MTH 20-2712-1.

Product Number: 20-2621-1

SD70ACe Diesel Engine w/Proto-Sound  2.0 - CSX
Cab Nos. 4833, 4836 & 4839

M.S.R.P. $ 429.95

First appeared in: 2005 Volume 2

Product Number: 20-2712-1

SD70Mac Diesel Engine w/Proto-Sound  2.0 - CSX
Cab Nos. 739 743 & 748

M.S.R.P. $ 399.95

First appeared in: 2006 Volume 2

CSX Proto photos

CSX SD70MAC # 739

CSX SD70ASE # 4833

Ahhhhhhhhh #4833!!

One of my favorites!!

someday soon it will have paint and live on my RR!!

Here is a recent MTH model of the CSX AC6000 from my collection.

I saved this photo the last time you posted it--love what you did with the logo... sure would like to see the cat on some modern equipment.

If you read the history of the mascot (as I'd imagine most folks in this thread have), you realize what a powerful and visible brand it was, particularly during wartime.  I think a huge opportunity has been missed in abandoning it.

I'd like to see the Seaboard logo around as well--but I suppose a heart and a kitten aren't the toughest looking images for selling freight hauling services.

Don't tell anyone but I also model CSX, Seaboard System, Seaboard Cost Line, Seaboard Air line, Atlantic Coast Line, and the Piedmont and Northern. All of these roads are CSX heritage lines.

S.R. Sean!!! HOW COULD YOU!!!!!! Wait until I tell Dewey and the rest of the Southern Fans!!! We're going to revoke your Southern card and privileges!!!!................rogerw.

Good Day,

Presenting a few of my CSX Heritage color schemes that I’d like to see in O Scale.  

Color schemes from the past with an inventive style represented on 21^st Century ES44AC’s and SD70ACe’s.

Regards,

Swafford

Original drawings by Michael Eby          Painted and Modified by Frank Swafford

Here is a recent MTH model of the CSX AC6000 (#627) from my collection.

Roger,

When I started buy O scale train my original plan was to model everything that Ran in NC.....Well I had to cut the list down to only include railroads in and out of Charlotte,NC But I had already purchased a lot of ACL, CSX, SBD  P&N Rolling stock and Locomotives.  Don't worry I'm still true to my handle!!

MTH:

Jim

Look like those AC6000 been stuck doing coal mines runs!

MU hoses are leftover bits of electrical wire. Pilots are not fixed as these are MTH '02 models.

Look just like the units I saw today in Rainele assigned to the 3 area mines!!